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Outside view of one of the purple and white driverless pods in Milton Keynes

Technology

First UK trial of driverless pods paves way for autonomous taxis

Two-seater pods zip around the pedestrian zones of Milton Keynes in the first UK trial of driverless car tech. Timothy Revell goes for a spin

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Woman looking at a tube map

Technology

DeepMind's AI has learned to navigate the Tube using memory

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A scene from the TV show Westworld with an android being manufactured

Technology

Why shows like Westworld only show dark side of our robot future

Comment

Chimps, bonobos and orangutans grasp how others view the world

Life

Chimps, bonobos and orangutans grasp how others view the world

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robot workers

Technology

Basic common sense is key to building more intelligent machines

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Auto ‘finprinting’ identifies individual sharks as they migrate

Life

Auto ‘finprinting’ identifies individual sharks as they migrate

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Don’t worry, bee happy: Bees found to have emotions and moods

Life

Don’t worry, bee happy: Bees found to have emotions and moods

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A Hawaiian crow using a stick as a tool

Life

Hawaiian crows can use sticks as tools but are nearly extinct

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Utopia elements

Humans

Utopia is unobtainable, but worth pursuing for all our sakes

Leader

Poo

Health

Primate labs give us an edge, says China's brain project chief

China’s new brain project is uniquely placed to deliver breakthroughs in neuroscience and artificial intelligence, explains Mu-ming Poo

Features

Life

Get inside the collective mind of a genius superorganism

Features

Technology

Computers that can argue will be satnav for the moral maze

Features

Technology

When infinity gets boring: What went wrong with No Man’s Sky

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Technology

The threat of robot guards is not enough to stop people stealing

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